56, George Street

GEORGE STREET 1. 1577 (West Side) SZ 5992 2/216 No 56

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1. Circa 1840. Three storeys grey brick with red dressings. Parapet and cornice of projecting red stretchers with grey headers on dentils below. Red brick bands between storeys. Upper storeys have superimposed bay windows and blind windows in centre. Bay windows are of three lights, sash, later glazing bars, plain strips, weather-boarded aprons with saw tooth edges to the planks, and frieze and cornices also with saw tooth decoration. On the ground floor to the right is an earlier bay window of three lights, sash, no glazing bars, fluted pilaster strips with cornice projecting to sides on shaped brackets a panelled apron. The left hand window is recessed, sash, its glazing bars intact, with a block sill and set in a plain rendered surround. The main entrance is slightly off the central axis and has two steps leading up to a panelled and glazed door with semi circular fanlight, set in a moulded case. To the right a plank side door, plain surround with chamfered upper edge.

Listing NGR: SZ5930092635